{"id":578,"date":"2011-03-11T13:29:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T17:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egstaffpicks.wordpress.com\/?p=578"},"modified":"2015-04-08T18:48:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:48:41","slug":"room-by-emma-donoghue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"Room by Emma Donoghue"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

On Jack’s 5th birthday, Ma creates a celebration out of the meager resources available to her.\u00a0She has lived in an 11′ by 11′ foot “room” for 7 years, since she was\u00a0kidnapped and held\u00a0by a sexual predator. \u00a0Jack’s whole life\u00a0has been defined by the room and\u00a0items doled out by “Old Nick.”\u00a0\u00a0Although based on a terrifying premise,\u00a0this is a story of courage, determination, and love. \u00a0Beautifully told\u00a0in\u00a0Jack’s\u00a0words, this is a story of the great love of a mother for her child, creativity in the face of want, and the persistence of a woman in her fight for freedom from captivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Jack’s 5th birthday, Ma creates a celebration out of the meager resources available to her.\u00a0She has lived in an 11′ by 11′ foot “room” for 7 years, since she was\u00a0kidnapped and held\u00a0by a sexual predator. \u00a0Jack’s whole life\u00a0has been defined by the room and\u00a0items doled out by “Old Nick.”\u00a0\u00a0Although based on a terrifying premise,\u00a0this … Continue reading Room by Emma Donoghue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-linda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}